Vietnam Adoption

Please Note: We are not currently taking applications for the Vietnam program.  The MOU agreement between the US and Vietnam did expire on September 1, 2008.  The country is currently closed to new applications.  We are waiting for a new agreement to be reached between the US and Vietnam before any new families can proceed with their adoption. We are uncertain how long it will be before a new agreement will be reached. 

Children’s Hope began working in Vietnam in 1998 with well over 300 adoptions. From 2003 – 2006, adoptions in Vietnam closed to US families and the entire adoption system in Vietnam was restructured. In June 2005, the US and Vietnam signed the memorandum of agreement to allow adoptions to resume with US families. Vietnam now requires that all agencies be licensed. Children’s Hope was licensed on January 25, 2006 and has completed over 160 adoptions since then.

Upon receiving your fully documented papers, Children’s Hope will:

1. Put you on the waiting list for a referral and notify you of the approximate wait for referral.

2. Send you a Travel Guide that will explain and prepare you for your trips to Vietnam.

3. Notify you several months before your referral so you can start preparing your dossier.

4. Check and arrange the documents and photos into a proper dossier when we receive them.

5. Work with officials who will locate and identify a child for you.

6. Express your dossier to our representative in Vietnam.

7. Notify you when the referral is given.

8. Send the picture of the child identified for you, with personal and medical info.

9. Get final approval and give notification of time to travel.

10. Coordinate travel and accommodations to/from/within Vietnam.

11. Meet parents at Vietnam airport with ground transportation and hotel arrangements having made all appointments with provincial authorities, US, Vietnamese Embassies.

12. Accompany and guide you in the completion of all the adoption process in Vietnam.

13. Send you a Post-Adoption Guide that will explain procedures upon your return.

Have a question? Email our Vietnam Program Director at Nicky.Losse@ChildrensHope.net.